Deck 7: Exploring Team Cohesion in Sport: A Critical Perspective

Question 1

In sport psychology, the study of how the presence of other people (e.g., spectators, fellow competitors) affects athletes' performance is known as:

A) Social cohesion
B) Social facilitation
C) Team dynamics
D) Team spirit

Answer 1

B

Question 2

Early research on social facilitation is associated mainly with the work of:

A) Wundt
B) Ebbinghaus
C) Triplett
D) Watson

Answer 2

C

Question 3

In sport psychology, what is the term used to refer to the tendency for people to work less hard on a task when they are part of a group than when they work as individuals?

A) Social merging
B) Social inertia
C) Social hiding
D) Social loafing

Answer 3

D

Question 4

What English football club in the 1980s gave rise to the group of players known as the "crazy gang"?

A) Liverpool FC
B) Manchester United FC
C) Wimbledon FC
D) Chelsea FC

Question 5

According to Tuckman (1965), there are four stages in the development of any team - forming, storming, norming and:

A) Performing
B) Informing
C) Reforming
D) Competing

Question 6

What is the psychological term used to describe a form of social bonding between individuals in order to achieve a common purpose?

A) Cohesion
B) Conformity
C) Diffusion
D) Deindividuation

Question 7

Which German psychologist is associated with the "field of forces" model of human behaviour?

A) Wundet
B) Lewin
C) Helmholtz
D) Munsterberg

Question 8

The term "reification" refers to the logical fallacy of:

A) Treating an abstraction as a concrete entity
B) Treating a concrete entity as an abstraction
C) Failing to distinguish between a cause and an effect
D) Failing to define one's terms precisely

Question 9

The Group Environment Questionnaire (GEQ) was developed by:

A) Lewin et al.
B) Hardy et al.
C) Carron et al.
D) Gould et al.

Question 10

What is the correct term for a graphic measure in psychology in which group members are asked confidentially to name other members whom they either like or dislike?

A) Eneagram
B) Pentagram
C) Tell-a-gram
D) Sociogram

Question 11

Lenk's (1969) research on German rowing teams was important because it challenged the assumption that:

A) Cohesion cannot be measured objectively
B) Cohesion is crucial to team success
C) Cohesion can be increased using relaxation techniques
D) Cohesion can be increased by peer evaluation

Question 12

In sport psychology, what is the term used to refer to group members' shared beliefs in their conjoint capacity to achieve a desired goal?

A) Collective efficacy
B) Collective consciousness
C) Group mental model
D) Group consciousness

Question 13

In meta-analysis, the effect size statistic is a number that represents:

A) The number of studies included in the analysis
B) The number of studies divided by the average effect in the analysis
C) The average size of the sample in each study in the analysis
D) The average strength of the effect in standard core units

Question 14

In sport psychology, games in which athletes play for a team but in which individual performance does not depend on teamwork (e.g., golf) are known as:

A) Interactive sports
B) Co-active sports
C) Transitive sports
D) Aggregate sports

Question 15

What is the term for the method which involves analysis of patterns of correlations between variables at different times?

A) Multi-trait, multi-method matrix correlation
B) Stepwise multiple regression
C) Cross-lagged panel correlation
D) Pearson correlation

Question 16

Which former England soccer manager has coached championship-winning teams in Sweden, Portugal and Italy?

A) Alf Ramsey
B) Fabio Capello
C) Steve McClaren
D) Sven-Goran Eriksson

Question 17

"Brainstorming" is the term used to describe:

A) Overloading teams with too much coaching information before matches
B) The effects of anxiety on team performance
C) The generation of ideas by members of a group to solve a problem
D) Shouting at players to help them to focus properly

Question 18

Kamp Staaldraad was an infamous military-style boot camp, established to develop team cohesion among:

A) South Africa's national football squad
B) Germany's national football squad
C) South Africa's national rugby squad
D) Holland's national track-and-field athletes

Question 19

Who was the head coach of the England rugby team that won the World Cup in 2003?

A) Clive Woodward
B) Martin Johnson
C) Brian Ashton
D) Andy Robinson

Question 20

What Irish Nobel prize-winner for literature played schoolboy cricket for Portora Royal School, Enniskillen, Northern Ireland?

A) Seamus Heaney
B) Samuel Beckett
C) George Bernard Shaw
D) William Butler Yeats